CMAJ Blogs

Oct 09 2014

Learning From Experience

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Kevin Dueck Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry Class of 2016 Contemplating the old medical training motto of “see one, do one, teach one,” I found that it focused on...

Oct 08 2014

Editors' Blog

Why Jamaicans dominate sprinting and other wisdom from the BASEM/FESM conference 2014

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK, and recently in Edinburgh for the British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine...

Oct 07 2014

Patients' blog, Peggy Cumming

ONLY lung cancer: from worst-case-scenario fears to gratitude

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Peggy Cumming, is a wife, mother, grandmother of 6, sister, niece, cousin and friend, as well as a teacher – retired after 34 years in the classroom – and an...

Oct 06 2014

Editors' Blog

Kindness and brutal honesty at the Cancer Assessment Centre

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Peggy Cumming, is a wife, mother, grandmother of 6, sister, niece, cousin and friend, as well as a teacher – retired after 34 years in the classroom – and an...

Sep 30 2014

Student Humanities Blog

Vanitas Dissected

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Shaurya Taran University of Ottawa Class of 2016 To understand some of the works the author discusses, you can access the Vanitas paintings, as well as some of Vicente’s other...

Sep 29 2014

Editors' Blog

Excellence and Impact in Oxford

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK Energised, refreshed, and inspired. The National Institute of Health Research, School for...

Sep 26 2014

Primary Care, Reflections

Everything is medicine

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Dr Randy Fransoo is a Senior Research Scientist and Acting Associate Director of Research at Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, and an assistant professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences...

Sep 25 2014

Primary Care, Reflections

Activity, cultural awareness, self-restraint and nutrition to tackle obesity in youth

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Dr Randy Fransoo is a Senior Research Scientist and Acting Associate Director of Research at Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, and an assistant professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences...

Sep 24 2014

Patients' blog, Peggy Cumming

The relief of sharing the news of my diagnosis

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Peggy Cumming, is a wife, mother, grandmother of 6, sister, niece, cousin and friend, as well as a teacher – retired after 34 years in the classroom – and an...

Sep 23 2014

Editors' Blog

Let’s put a firecracker under health care innovation in Canada

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Kirsten Patrick is Deputy Editor at CMAJ A recently published CMAJ Q&A with David Naylor, chair of the federal government’s new Advisory Panel on Healthcare Innovation, hinted at how...

Sep 23 2014

Reflections

Concussion – the Invisible Injury

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Matt Eagles is a medical student at Memorial University, Newfoundland and Labrador (Class of 2017) and a former Major Junior and University hockey player. He is a founding member of...

Sep 22 2014

Editors' Blog

White coat, white privilege?

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Sarah Currie is a medical copy editor on CMAJ Whether or not you’re a fan of the NFL or the Minnesota Vikings, chances are you’ve heard of Adrian Peterson and...

Sep 18 2014

Doctors' health

On health and work

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Professor Dame Carol Black is Principal of Newnham College Cambridge, Expert Adviser on Health and Work to the Department of Health, England, Chair of the Nuffield Trust, and Chair of...